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stealie72 posted:Picked this up on this recommendation and plowed through it in like 36 hours. Such a great read. Not sure why it's not held up more often with Invisible Man and Another Country. Awesome glad you liked it!
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tuyop posted:I’ll give you like as many nonfiction books about history/geography as I’ve enjoyed. In going through years of books I’ve logged, I noticed that most of the nonfiction books by women and people of colour I’ve read have not been about history, so I apologize for the asymmetry of the list. Great list. I’ve read about most of these, a couple I haven’t heard of.
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tuyop posted:I found Blackfish City a bit disappointing. I really wanted Indigenous Futurism (and feel like it’s sold that way a bit) and instead got a passable sci fi action novel with an interesting setting. On this note do you have other recs for Indigenous futurism?
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shwinnebego posted:On this note do you have other recs for Indigenous futurism? Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse was good, I think, but I've completely forgotten it for some reason. Probably because of the events surrounding the time I read it in 2020. I recently read Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, which is Indigenous post-apocalyptic fiction that was very debut novel. Worth your time but not spectacular. I DNF'd Elatsoe because it was too YA for me, but if you like that then you'll probably enjoy it! It wasn't all Indigenous authors (I didn't actually check the ethnicity of each author so I don't really know) but New Suns is a great anthology of short fiction by people of colour. Give Me Your Black Wings, Oh Sister by Silvia Moreno-Garcia was a real standout about grief and guilt. Probably a stretch but Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson is an alternate history where John Brown's rebellion succeeded. The book takes place in the near future in the society that results, with lots of letters and history from the civil war era and resulting conflict that split the US. It's a very good book!
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Fire on the Mountain sounds most interesting to me of those I read another book by Rebecca Roanhorse and I like, didn’t really like it that much unfortunately. Wish I liked it more but I just found the writing to be sorta, not good and the story to be kinda predictable in a way that dampened the fun
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Looking for a good book, as a gift, about Antarctica. Either fiction or non-fiction, but what I’m looking for is an exploration of what Antarctica, as a kind of politically neutral zone where nature is still basically allowed to thrive, feels like to be there. I almost bought KSR’s novel Antarctica, but he can be a little dry. So I thought I’d check here first, but definitely interested in opinions on the KSR book.
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I was looking for recommendations of books in intermediate level Spanish to read.
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Suspekt Device posted:I was looking for recommendations of books in intermediate level Spanish to read. I’m also looking for recommendations of this, but I’m the meantime I can suggest Batallas en el Desierto by José Emilio Pacheco. It was very approachable for me. Also, though I want to read more books that were written in Spanish, I’ve had a good time revisiting some books I loved and read a lot when I in was a teen in translation (LOTR and the Hobbit for me). I’m familiar enough with the story that even though I might get confused I never get lost.
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I'm looking for reference books on gardening to get a relative who's super into it, but I have no idea which one's worth the money.
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Solitair posted:I'm looking for reference books on gardening to get a relative who's super into it, but I have no idea which one's worth the money. It's going to depend a lot of where your relative is gardening and what sort of gardening they want to do.
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Solitair posted:I'm looking for reference books on gardening to get a relative who's super into it, but I have no idea which one's worth the money. Biology of Plants (aka "Raven Biology") by Raven, Evert & Eichhorn is great for a gardener who wants to dip their tows into botany from a foundational knowledge perspective. The current version is outrageously expensive (it's a text book), but an edition or two back is still mostly the same information and is still tremendously useful, and costs a fraction of the price. I picked it up when I had been gardening for several years and dealing with the various tribulations involved and I wanted a deeper understanding of how and why a specific blight might operate rather than just knowing how to treat it. It is 100% a text book, but it's great if the person seems like they're that level of plant nerd.
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